Tuscany — If you manage to elbow your way past the crowds at Paris' Louvre museum to get close enough to stare into the eyes of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — and you then manage to break eye contact ...

From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don’t just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces ...

This week, French president Emmanuel Macron announced plans for the iconic Mona Lisa to get its own dedicated room inside a renovated the Louvre museum. The artwork is visited by nearly nine million ...

The greatest paintings usually magnify the beauty and morals of the civilizations that produced them, inspiring countless other artists, writers and satirists for centuries to come. Artists such as ...

A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, ...

One hundred years ago, a heist by a worker at the Louvre secured Leonardo’s painting as an art world icon James Zug After 28 months, Vincenzo Perugia was arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa. Shown ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Visitors to the Louvre in Paris should have a clearer view of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" after the museum installed a new, more transparent form of bullet-proof glass to protect ...

Explore how the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre in Paris for over two years. It's the most famous painting in the world. Nearly 8.5 million people visit her every year. Yet few have ever heard ...

ROME — A 15th-century Bible which is considered one of the most spectacular examples of Renaissance illuminated manuscripts ...

A group in Switzerland is claiming that Leonardo Da Vinci created an earlier version of his masterpiece “Mona Lisa.” The Mona Lisa Foundation, based in Zurich, announced its findings Thursday on its ...